Word: rococo
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...Majesty treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any." By omitting such touches and emphasizing Wilde's plangent side, and by himself-if often eloquent-being often florid, Mac Liammoir piles Pelion upon Oscar, and turns what he dubs a baroque and rococo story into a rather mawkish and Victorian one. In both men notable showmanship can become mere staginess...
Lerner is a fastidious dresser whose clothes are always neat and perfectly cut, with a rococo touch here and there. Loewe is a bit rumpled, his predilections turning more to wine, women, and when the need arises song. Lerner smokes, and has a habit of twirling the ignited cigarette in his fingers like the active end of a turboprop. Loewe has given up smoking, but when the jade palls he constantly keeps an unlit cigarette in his hand, gradually flattening and shredding it as he talks. He pinches away a pack a day, recently changed brands...
Even as Herter dryly rebutted that "never in modern history has there been a dictator who did not claim to represent the will of the people." committees of foreign ministers filled offstage workrooms of the rococo National Theater to write the final resolution. The initial division was between two groups. One group-including Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Uruguay, Paraguay, El Salvador and Colombia-was willing to go along with the U.S. in a specific denunciation of Russian and Communist Chinese intervention and of Cuba for inviting it. Other foreign ministers-from Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Honduras and Ecuador...
Decorated with lacelike rococo friezes and 17th and 18th century sculptures...
...John McCollum, Robert Paul and Ronald Holgate, and Wednesday's Fiordiligi, Marguerite Willauer) go at least a little ways toward rescuing the situation. The staging, also Mr. Goldovsky's, is brisk though not particularly witty, and the only really unqualified success are Leo van Witsen's gorgeous clothes, whose rococo sometimes borders on the fantastic...